<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Steven Ryerse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com" target="_blank">SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This is an example of how policies penalize legitimate organizations needing to do legitimate transfers. In my opinion the Polices have swung so far towards
preventing abuse they impact legitimate transfers. In the publicly traded company world, each quarter is like a year and a year is like 4 years to them since they have to publish their quarterly results 4 times a year. For them a year is an eternity. </span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would say that the new policies such as the 8.3 specified transfer and inter-RIR transfer policies are ENABLING resource holders.</div><div><br></div><div>ARIN is not required to allow such transfers; historically, they were not allowed, but the community has decided that in some cases, it makes sense to allow transfers to specified recipients or between RIRs. In cases that are not allowed; returning and applying for more resources is always an option, so organizations are not being penalized. Some organizations may be better enabled by new policies than others, and that's okay.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While not all conceivable legitimate uses will be enabled by the specified transfer policy and its abuse protections; It is more important to prevent potential abuses or possible flipping, than to enable all conceivable uses of resource transfer that would be deemed legitimate. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe: wait for 12 months, or apply for the additional resources in the proper region are appropriate answers, and this example doesn't revise relaxing protections against abuse that come with the new policies that enable resource transfers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>-JH </div></div></div></div>